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Charter agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede to make peace between the unpopular king and a group of rebel barons.
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village in E Virginia: first permanent English settlement in North America
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agreement reached by the Pilgrims on the ship the Mayflower just before they landed at Plymouth Rock.
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English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing.
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Creates the separation of powers, limits the powers of the king and queen, enhances the democratic election pollsters freedom of speech.
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Plan to create a unified government for the 13 colonies. This was suggested by Benjamin Franklin
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New tax was imposed on American colonists and required that they pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
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British Army Soldiers killed 5 civilian men and injured 6 others. commoners were protesting high taxes.
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In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board 3 British tea ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
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passed to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. the first was Boston Port Bill and it closed the Boston Harbor, next was the Administration of Justice Act became effective May 20th and it did not allow British soldiers to be tried in the colonies, last was Quebec Act was established, This act extended the Canadian borders to cut some of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Virginia.s for any crimes,
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A meeting of delegates from the 12 of the 13 colonies that met at carpenters' hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They met to consider options, including an economic boycott of British trade.
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Document to declare independence from Great Britain.
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The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence
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The original constitution of the United States.
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A series of protests by american farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt.
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This established a two-house legislature.
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they drafted the constitution.
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The intention of the convention was to revise the Articles of Confederation but the result was the creation of the United States Constitution.
